Titel: Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--And How to Fight Back
Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1523095849
ISBN-13: 9781523095841
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
Gewicht: 0,98�Pfund

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"Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most significant aspects of our lives--the consequences of our addiction to online technology and how we can liberate ourselves and our children from it."
--Dean Ornish, M.D. Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Author, The Spectrum

Technology: your master, or your friend? Do you feel ruled by your smartphone and enslaved by your e-mail or social-network activities? Digital technology is making us miserable, say bestselling authors and former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. We've become a tribe of tech addicts--and it's not entirely our fault.

Taking advantage of vulnerabilities in human brain function, tech companies entice us to overdose on technology interaction. This damages our lives, work, families, and friendships. Swipe-driven dating apps train us to evaluate people like products, diminishing our relationships. At work, we e-mail on average 77 times a day, ruining our concentration. At home, light from our screens is contributing to epidemic sleep deprivation.

But we can reclaim our lives without dismissing technology. The authors explain how to avoid getting hooked on tech and how to define and control the roles that tech is playing and could play in our lives. And they provide a guide to technological and personal tools for regaining control. This readable book turns personal observation into a handy action guide to adapting to our new reality of omnipresent technology.

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Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur, a technologist, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering. A globally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, he coauthored with Alex Salkever The Immigrant Exodus (an Economist 2012 Book of the Year) and The Driver in the Driverless Car (long-listed for the Financial Times and McKinsey 2017 Business Book of the Year).

Alex Salkever is an author, futurist and technology leader. He co-authored with Vivek Wadhwa "The Driver in the Driverless Car" and "The Immigrant Exodus". He is a columnist for Fortune and previously served as a Vice President at Mozilla as the Technology Editor of BusinessWeek.com and as a Guest Researcher at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering.

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